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Chipmaker takes the fight to Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron and Compal

QUALCOMM IS SUING four iPhone and iPad makers for failing to provide royalty payments, after they received instructions from Apple not to pay.

A complaint filed by Qualcomm this week in the Southern District of California demands that Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron and Compal hand over royalty payments in line with their contracts, along with as well as coughing up damages and "declaratory relief".

Don Rosenberg, executive vice president and general counsel of Qualcomm, said in a statement: "We cannot allow these manufacturers and Apple to use our valuable intellectual property without paying the fair and reasonable royalties to which they have agreed.

"As Apple continues to collect billions of dollars from consumer sales of its Qualcomm-enabled products, it is using its market power as the wealthiest company in the world to try to coerce unfair and unreasonable license terms from Qualcomm in its global attack on the company."

Apple hasn't commented, but has long-claimed that Qualcomm is "unfairly insisting on charging royalties for technologies they have nothing to do with.

"Qualcomm built its business on older, legacy standards but reinforces its dominance through exclusionary tactics and excessive royalties," Apple said in an earlier statement.

"Despite being just one of over a dozen companies that contributed to basic cellular standards, Qualcomm insists on charging Apple at least five times more in payments than all the other cellular patent licensors we have agreements with combined."

Qualcomm fired back, and in April it threw some sass in the direction of Apple and has hit back at the firm with a counter lawsuit. It accused the iPhone maker of breaching licensing agreements, making false statements about the performance of its chips, and encouraging regulatory attacks against Qualcomm's business.